Rhymes And Rhythms - Ix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AE EFGHG IJIJKLKL MNONJPJP| 'As like the Woman as you can' | A |
| Thus the New Adam was beguiled | B |
| 'So shall you touch the Perfect Man' | A |
| God in the Garden heard and smiled | B |
| 'Your father perished with his day | C |
| 'A clot of passions fierce and blind | D |
| 'He fought he slew he hacked his way | C |
| 'Your muscles Child must be of mind | D |
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| 'The Brute that lurks and irks within | A |
| 'How till you have him gagged and bound | E |
| 'Escape the foullest form of Sin ' | - |
| God in the Garden laughed and frowned | E |
| 'So vile so rank the bestial mood | F |
| 'In which the race is bid to be | G |
| 'It wrecks the Rarer Womanhood | H |
| 'Live therefore you for Purity | G |
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| 'Take for your mate no buxom croup | I |
| 'No girl all grace and natural will | J |
| 'To make her happy were to stoop | I |
| 'From light to dark from Good to Ill | J |
| 'Choose one of whom your grosser make' | K |
| God in the Garden laughed outright | L |
| 'The true refining touch may take | K |
| 'Till both attain Life's highest height | L |
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| 'There equal purged of soul and sense | M |
| 'Beneficent high thinking just | N |
| 'Beyond the appeal of Violence | O |
| 'Incapable of common Lust | N |
| 'In mental Marriage still prevail' | J |
| God in the Garden hid His face | P |
| 'Till you achieve that Female Male | J |
| 'In Which shall culminate the race | P |
William Ernest Henley
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